On Wednesday, September 18, in the rescheduled match of the 4th round of the Ukrainian championship Dynamo Kyiv defeated Poltava Vorskla with the score 3:1. The match was held in Kyiv at the Dynamo stadium named after Valeriy Lobanovskiy. Here is the post-match press conference of the teams' head coaches.
Oleksandr SHOVKOVSKY, Dynamo head coach:
- I congratulate all Dynamo fans on the victory. And I thank the AFU for giving us the opportunity to hold the championship and play soccer.
As for the match itself, we entered a difficult schedule in which we will have matches in two days on the third, in three days on the fourth. Now we will also have Europa League matches. With interesting and forced logistics. "Thanks" to our neighbors from across the fence. But we have what we have. We're preparing.
We now have a great opportunity for rotation, which we resorted to today. We plan to do it in the future. Firstly, so that all our players were always in tone and ready to go on the field, and, secondly, so that the guys had an opportunity to rest and prepare for matches.
Oleksandr Shovkovskiy. Photo — Y. Yuriev- How do you evaluate the debut of foreign players - Seballos and Guerrero?
- Ceballos scored a goal today. Guerrero failed to do it, but we congratulated them both on their debut match, and Seballos, of course, also with a goal.
As for the condition of Ceballos, at first glance, it seems that nothing so terrible happened to him, but we will still give him a medical examination to rule out any complications that may be possible in this kind of collisions.
The same goes for Brazko. He took a significant blow to the chest. It may be a bruise, but we want to rule out more complicated options.
We were satisfied with the play of both Ceballos and Guerrero. It is one thing to train, and quite another to play: different loads, different responsibility, which affects the actions of players. In general, I am satisfied with the game of both of them, but there are moments that need to be improved and that we should always work on to make our game more perfect.
- After the score became 2:1, it could have turned into a draw. Does it worry you?
- Of course, I always want to score the first goal, the second, fifth, tenth. But the game involves two teams, each of which is trying to do something to oppose the opponent.
In the first half "Vorskla" defended with ten players and did it with very dense redoubts, not allowing us to get the ball between the lines. The opponent played not only very tight, but also aggressive. But we were ready for it. There are always factors that should equalize the teams on the field - it's motivation, the charge to fight, the ability to separate emotions from their actions and work for the result.
Look how Shaparenko has changed. He has his own personality, he is what he is. But we managed to get through to him so that his emotions were directed solely at being more effective for the team and his individual actions.
Finally, all teams go to the matches with Dynamo as motivated as possible. For different reasons. This should also be taken into account.
- Please explain to us and the fans why today both Dynamo and Vorskla made 7 substitutions each?
- We are talking about forced substitutions due to suspicion of concussion. The doctor brings such a situation to the fourth referee, and he gives an additional lot for the opposing team. In the first half, such an injury was suffered by Gucik. This explained the sixth substitution. After the situation that happened with Ceballos I immediately decided to make a substitution, but it was also from our side as a forced substitution because of a possible concussion. So it turned out that today we and Vorskla had seven substitutions each.
Sergiy DOLGANSKY, head coach of Vorskla:
- The game turned out the way we expected it. We know the class of Dynamo, we have seen this team in European cups. Therefore, we tried to cover the zones, to level Dynamo's strengths, but first we conceded a goal from a standard position, and then, almost immediately, we conceded an unnecessary goal, which was a consequence of our mistake.
In the second half we came out more collected, made substitutions. We managed something, something - not, but we scored a goal and could have done more, but again we conceded an unnecessary goal.
- How does Gucik feel?
- He has a suspected nose fracture.
Alexander POPOV from the Dynamo stadium named after Valeriy Lobanovskiy.
